What Did We Do Before Chucks?

For better or worse, I constantly fall victim to the desire to try anything that has a long line and a small menu. This usually means that the restaurant is specialized, and good enough at one or two things to sell only those things. The best examples are In-N-Out Burger, Pinkberry and Starbucks. The specialty here is dessert made from buffalo milk, and since I didn't think buffaloes made milk, I had to find out if it tasted good.

It was one of those cold and rainy nights last week when we'd just finished eating a spicy dinner when we came across this spot. There was a line, and there was a simple menu. The first time I ate here, we only had the dessert, because it was so good we came back and tried a full meal. The tender beef brisket noodle was alright, I think that there was a ton of beef stock in the soup because it seemed to coat my tongue and teeth. That said, I've never really liked Chinese noodle soup as much as Vietnamese or Thai ones. We also tried some fried shrimp cakes and a bowl of cow stomach. The shrimp cakes were kind of gross, and they tasted like deep-fried mashed potatoes. The cow stomach wasn't that tasty either, it just tasted like the soy sauce/sesame oil that it was soaking in.

The food was really nothing special here, it's really worth coming here for only the double snowy cream dessert made with buffalo milk. It's a very simple, thick milk cream dessert that comes cold or warm and is awesome. You can get it with fruit toppings as well, which it goes well with since it's not overwhelmingly sweet. Hmm, kind of like Pinkberry.

3 out of 5, even though dessert and setting are excellent, meal food is mediocre.